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Hand signs are also used a lot in school. How you put up yours hand indicates something about the urgency,
I guess that the conventions differ a lot between schools (and countries).
But from sitting in class of my sons I clearly notice patterns.
The 'strength' of the sign (how fiercely you put up your hand) clearly indicates subjective importance.
When answering open teacher questions there were two ways to put the hand up: Single handed to indicate a new answer or both hands ("Doppelmeldung") to indicate elaboration in a previous answer.
Acoustic signals (e.g. clicking fingers) are obviously discouraged.
I have often seen that waving the hand indicates doubt about a previous answer or indication of an opposing answer.
These are simple and could be used in any group discussion.
I'm reminded of a tactic I implemented in a group context I had some control over once: discussion was mediated by each speaker getting to speak uninterrupted until they were done and then handing the floor explicitly to another member of the group, and everyone (~100 people) was issued four index cards (Red, Green, White, Blue) with instructions to raise them to indicate the following:
Red = disagreement
Green = agreement
White = boredom/disinterest
Blue = confusion/request for clarification.
It wasn't a particularly good mechanism for mediating discussion, but I was intrigued by the ways people differed in terms of their response to various response patterns.